And Thetis, in tears, said to him:
"I won't have you with me for long, my child, if you say such things. Hector's death means yours."
From under a great weight, Achilles answered:
"Then let me die now. I was no help to him when he was killed out there. He died far from home, and he needed me to protect him."
-The Iliad, book 18.
My illustration for the Sing, O Muse! zine, coming out this July

















